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K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦
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The wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of Canadian Literature. www.krwilson.ca No A.I.
Stan On Guard coming Mar 2026.

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Richard Middlewood Wilson was an English philologist.

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K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · Jul 1
TEASER BOOK TRAILER
Stan On Guard. The sequel to Call Me Stan that you didn’t know you were waiting for. Coming in 2026 from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social.

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Stan On Guard book trailer
Teaser trailer for the 2026 novel Stan On Guard by K. R. Wilson.
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 6h
Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025

CANADA

VERY HIGH [no change]

About 1 of every 118 people is infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections: 7.6 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.0 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 10.4 x higher
-Deaths: 12.2 x higher
This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is VERY HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 10.1 About 1 of every 118 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 583,200-806,200 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: HIGH; 7.6X higher Long COVID: HIGH; 6.0X higher Hospitalizations: VERY HIGH; 10.4X higher Deaths: VERY HIGH; 12.2X higher HOW TO HELP: EVERYONE: UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks AVOID indoor social gatherings AVOID crowded non-essential places Who is HIGH RISK? People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca

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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 6h
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025

SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
This image shows gauges with the Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: VERY HIGH - 10.1 Alberta: SEVERE - 16.2 British Columbia: HIGH - 8.4 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 11.9 New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 14.5 Newfoundland & Labrador: VERY HIGH - 10.1 North: VERY HIGH - 11.5 Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 12.7 Ontario: HIGH - 9.2 Prince Edward Island: HIGH - 7.7 Quebec: VERY HIGH - 10.1 Saskatchewan: VERY HIGH - 13.1 A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

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The Royal Society of Canada // La Société royale du Canada @src-rsc.bsky.social · 11h
A new @ca.theconversation.com article, co-authored by @juliamwright.bsky.social (FRSC), explores how updated CSA standards for respirator use can better protect health-care workers and patients — and why adopting evidence-based safety measures is vital for all Canadians. #RSCVoices
The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier
The CSA Group — a not-for-profit standards organization — released for review a new draft standard on the “Selection, Use, and Care of Respirators” (CSA Z94.4:25) for workplaces, specifically includin...
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 18h
Oh fuck off

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19h
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 1d
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

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America’s #1 Rose Maddox Stan @wolter.bsky.social · 1d
Learning that a lot of people genuinely hate reading in general and not just when it’s assigned or boring was shocking to me when I was younger. This species continues to confound me in the ways it will avoid doing one of our greatest societal accomplishments.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 1d
"with 1 trillion dollars, Elon Musk could-"

He doesn't have one trillion dollars. He's not going to have one trillion dollars. The company promising to give him one trillion dollars isn't worth one trillion dollars. It's not going to be worth one trillion dollars.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 1d
Never have. Never will. Not interested in going anywhere *near* a crap app built out of countless millions of hard-won words stolen from my colleagues, the use of which will (bonus!) begin progressively to degrade my cognitive skills and blunt the edge of the tool I’ve spent half a century honing. 🤨
clairesnonsense.bsky.social Claire Waller / Ellie Graves/ Claire Lunn @clairesnonsense.bsky.social · 1d
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋

(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
baddestmamajama.bsky.social Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d
Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 2d
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 2d
Unlike the child porn mandatory minimum sentence hysterics (eg Robyn Urback), Mr. Coyne has actually read and understood the Supreme Court’s recent Charter decision affecting same.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 3d
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3d
The Trump regime is not only withdrawing the US from climate efforts, it's threatening other countries that try to make climate deals. This is one of the greatest crimes of the Trump administration:
U.S. skips COP30 climate conference, lobbies to sink new global deals
The Trump administration is using lobbying and economic threats to thwart emissions-cutting and environmental initiatives around the world.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d
Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 4d
This Mortal Coil’s version of Song To The Siren youtu.be/HFWKJ2FUiAQ?...
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (Official Video)
YouTube video by 4AD
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 4d
Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4d
We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 5d
*sip* ☕️
Threads op: j.g_rubel Taught my kids how Socialism works. Let them Trick or Treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101 reply: johnrashotte The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.

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Together Project @togetherproject.bsky.social · 5d
Did you know that today is I Read Canadian Day? To celebrate, we're sharing this great list by CBC Books from World Refugee Day:

"If you're looking for a book to help you understand what the refugee experience is like, check out one of these titles by Canadian writers."

www.cbc.ca/books/12-can...
12 Canadian books to read for World Refugee Day | CBC Books
June 20 is World Refugee Day. CBC Books has curated this list of books by Canadian writers (including Lawrence Hill, Madeleine Thien and more) that explore global diversity and the lived experience of...
www.cbc.ca

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 5d
PM Carney minces no words.
Trump-imposed uncertainty is estimated to cost 🇨🇦Canada 1.8% of GDP.
We have to buckle up, knuckle down, grit our teeth, and carry on while shunning dependence on a neofascist 🇺🇸USA.
Can’t conceive of being stuck with a high school debater like Poilievre in times like these.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 6d
We can't let rage win! 💪

Research shows anger, not fear, shifts political beliefs source.washu.edu/2025/10/rese...

"...the researchers found that anger — not fear — was the primary emotion tied to a shift toward conservative views."
Research shows anger, not fear, shifts political beliefs
Research from a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis has found that anger is the emotion that can drive abrupt shifts in political attitudes.
source.washu.edu

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 6d
Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

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K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 6d
He will never get over losing the Toronto mayoral election.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 6d
In which @theglobeandmail.com’s resident hysteric, Ms Urback, discloses her complete ignorance of jurisprudential reasoning.
Yes,these two offenders might well have merited sentences of well more than a year’s imprisonment.
But no, it wouldn’t require a mandatory minimum sentence to achieve that.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d
Vaxxed?

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Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies | CNN Politics
Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, accordin...
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 6d
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Doug Ford quietly kills Toronto’s green roof bylaw
Since the bylaw came into force in 2009, more than 1,200 green roofs have been installed across the city.
www.thestar.com

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 6d
VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

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Condé Union @condeunion.bsky.social · 7d
We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement: